Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complexities of the post-cold war world in careful speeches in front of think tanks that would be largely ignored. Now their strengths and weaknesses are in full view: Buchanan, McCain and Gary Bauer (on leave as Family Research Council president) at least have the benefit of strong, albeit wildly different, convictions. Bush has to confront his inexperience; Elizabeth Dole is determined to show that her positions come from her own work with desperate refugees, rather than from pillow talk with Bob, who served as Clinton's envoy on one Kosovo mission in early March; billionaire publisher Steve Forbes wants...
...fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each of those exchanges, eBay is one of the few Net start-ups to turn a profit--albeit a small one--on sales of $47 million last year. Since eBay acts as an intermediary with little or no overhead to cover, "consumer-to-consumer auctions can be like printing money," says Marc Johnson, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. No wonder investors have valued the fledgling company at a monstrous...
...proclaim victory, the health of public education in many cities has been so lousy for so long that even modest progress gets hailed as a breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...
...fate getting back at him for having the gall to look down at the screen displaying his winnings during the opening segment. Or perhaps it was the several on-camera interactions that made Alex Trebek look like the dope he is. In any event, Dave was sent packing, albeit $16,400 richer...
...enrolled at the Sherbourne School in Dorset and there showed a flair for mathematics, even if his papers were criticized for being "dirty," i.e., messy. Turing recognized his homosexuality while at Sherbourne and fell in love, albeit undeclared, with another boy at the school, who suddenly died of bovine tuberculosis. This loss shattered Turing's religious faith and led him into atheism and the conviction that all phenomena must have materialistic explanations. There was no soul in the machine nor any mind behind a brain. But how, then, did thought and consciousness arise...